The airborne trickster - Aleksei Tomylin, civil aviation pilot - one day decides to stop tempting fate and only flies directly. The airport where Tomylin works is near the border with Afghanistan. One day he receives the task to fly across the border and transfer a package with an order to catch a notorious saboteur. On his way back, Tomylin crash lands near an abandoned settlement - and soon finds himself taken hostage by a gang. The hero pretends to agree to take the saboteur abroad, and relies only on his expertise as a flying ace.....

Oleg Zhakov
as Aleksey Tomilin, pilot

Dmitriy Dudnikov
as Moustafa Haji, Japanese spy

Konstantin Sorokin
as Vlasov, pilot

Aleksey Bondi
as Squadron commander

Aleksandr Beniaminov
as Youssuf, bartender

Fedor Fedorovski
as Captain Bystrov

Pyotr Nikashin
as Kostya Kuzmin, flight mechanic

Tamara Nagayeva
as Faizi

Zula Nakhashkiyev
as Dugar

Nikolay Urvantsov
as Dispatcher (uncredited)